ohh no way, I never noticed that haha
I loggem in my Noggin
But also in part because of this thread I did end up making a Nativelyaccount that I dont really keep all that updated. I think it has all the books I own but I could be unsure. Since other people dropped theirs here is mine
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Also since I forgot to update, I went and saw a new horror movie that was filmed in a town next to mine. āThe Convivence Storeā which I guess is based off a horror game from some several years ago. Honestly it kinda felt like an updated Ring film based off how the curse travels. But I wont spoil to much.
but because I had to hang out in town all day I ended up reading another chapter of my āGirl speaks to Animalsā book and I dont know why, but this chapter was infinitely easier than the prior chapter. It did use a lot of grammar I had just learned too which is nice. Always feels good to learn new words or grammar and then immediately see it being used. (Now just to get to using it. I should probably use that sentence a day thread.) but, all in all, a good week for me.
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This is interesting, I think Iām going to poke around with it a little - one of the things about natively that was a little tricky for me is that they donāt list some of the things I own, so having a broader selection and the ability to manually add stuff could be nice. I have to see if the barcodes actually work though - so far the one book I tried to scan didnāt actually add the correct volume 
But itāll be interesting to putz around with.
As for learnnatively, hereās mine!
https://learnnatively.com/user/Ayara012/jpn/
I only go through and update my āreadā list periodically, so I donāt know that itās a good way to actually follow what Iām doing, but itāll be fun to keep track of everyone 
As someone who has the full set of FMAā¦itās very satisfying to look at, I love how they did the spines. Which feels like a weird thing to be pleased by but 
No update for me today (yet), but thereās a few hours yet.
I may have committed a small crime and ordered ęć®ćØć 2~10ā¦
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yall have read so many booksā¦ howā¦
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Time! And also all of mine are just manga, so itās not like Iāve tackled a bunch of novels or something 
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I should have wrote a disclaimer that most of the ābooksā Iāve read on Natively are actually just Tadoku graded reader stories! Iāve only read 7 manga volumes (and zero books) so far!
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Iāve had a few of my books not scan or scan with an incorrect cover. Double check itās the 978 isbn thatās used and you can manually edit it. The majority of the more popular books I own have scanned in fine though but I do have over 1000 physical Japanese books so my percentage that I had to input manually or correct has been relatively low
You can request stuff to be added to natively but there was a long period where the backlog was high and only now is stuff coming through that I requested months ago. I think itās limited to what Amazon.jp have listed though as a few of my books arenāt listed on there or the most recent volumes are missing.
I had to reshuffle my Dragon Quest adventures of Dai series just to make the covers flow. A good book spine design looks fab on the shelf I feel 
About 130 of the ones Iāve logged as read were either extremely short graded readers or they were study textbooks and short stories aimed at learners, the rest are mostly manga some of which Iāve re-read to understand better) with a few childrenās stories thrown in but Iāve been reading in Japanese for about 6 years now.
Reading the free tadoku graded readers over a few days is what helped push me to start reading other things and getting quicker at reading the textbook stuff.
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Yeah, I wasnāt sure at first which barcode to be scanning, which was definitely part of it. Iāll just need to futz a bit and test things out.
Yesterdayās update:
Volume two of ęć®ćØć and almost exactly half of the first volume of éē·ć®ć¤ć, which definitely has my attention so far.
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I updated mine with some of the Tadoku books Iāve read now so I could feel cool like everyone else HAHA Iām catching upā¦ feels like cheating tho to add it way after the fact somehow but idk whyā¦ maybe because deep down I know Iām just adding them to inflate my numbersā¦
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I mean, if the books youāre adding are things youāve readā¦well, youāve read them. Itās not like youāre making up books out of the aether or something, youāre just registering stuff youāve already done!
Got through the second half of the ć¤ć volume since my last post!
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Havenāt read any the past few days. Life suddenly has a lot going on. Some very sad things, some stressful, and some really exciting. My life is probably going to change drastically in the next few years. I really hope Iāll be able to keep reading even then.
I did still manage to finish ęęć³ć¬ćÆćæć¼ 6 last week and will continue on with Kino no Tabi now. Iād like to start some more manga too, because itās been a few weeks since Iāve read any. Still on top of my reading goals for the year though.
I literally felt the exact same way and removed all of mine off once I started reading āreal booksā.
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Just made a learnnatively account, here it is: https://learnnatively.com/user/Rhynn
Also finished the second volume of ćć¤ć°ćØļ¼ today. There are definitely bits Iām reading but not understanding, but overall Iām getting a good idea of whatās going on so Iām going to keep going, and Iāll re-read them at some point in the future.
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Yeah I ended up removing them just now tooā¦ I did read them but I decided that I want Learn Natively to be a reflection of my current journey and specifically my journey with native material, so adding old and learner-focused material defeated the point of that. Love u Tadoku, but we must bid adieuā¦
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Late update from last week/early update for this week:
I finished my first novel in Japanese!!! Wooooo!
It took me approximately 1 month to read åęęć»é«ę§»å½°čÆć®ęØåÆ ę°äæå¦ććčŖćć. Iām still confused about whether its a novel or a light novel, tbh, but it was fun.
What I learned from this:
- reading is not the be all and end all of learning Japanese as some portray it, though it is v helpful
- it takes a looooot longer to get better at reading than I thought
- despite not usually being an E book fan and typically not being able to focus on reading on my phone, book walker was a huge game changer for me. This is going to sound like the laziest thing ever, but sometimes getting set up and cuddled up with my book can be a deterrent to reading. Being able to get into bed and just read on my phone was more efficient and led to me reading a lot more often. I surprisingly didnāt get distracted or want to use social media even though thatās the usual reason I donāt read on my phone.
Now Iāve started another digital light novel and I hope to finish that within a month too, but I also want to spread my study a bit more evenly this month so it might take me longer.
Unfortunately I havenāt read much in the way of my physical book backlog but maybe I will have some time for those soon.
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Iāve been playing a lot of Switch (in Japanese at least!) recently, so other than Kiki Iāve been neglecting reading recently.
I mostly use Goodreads for tracking books, but did make a Natively account earlier this year to start tracking Japanese books. Iām not a huge fan of the rating system, but it seems easier to find certain Japanese books compared to Goodreads. Hereās the link to my account: https://learnnatively.com/user/spookykabuki/jpn/
@obscureniche hope everything is going okay on your end. It can definitely be difficult to prioritize language learning when life throws things your way!
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I completely missed reading this. Hang in there obscureniche!!
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Thats actually super valid and one reason I dont read as often as I would like at home. I have an extra corner I dont know what to do with in my litle apartment and an extra little banana chair, Maybe Ill find a throw blanket and a little shelf and turn it into a reading corner. I can leave a book/manga there and when I want a change of pace move over to the banana chair and read. Leave my phone on to charge or toss it into a DND mode. I actually have an app I bought some years ago that can effectively brick my phone so I cant do anything on it, which Ill use every so often to quote unquote ādetoxā.
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Iām amazed you use it! Every time I try using an app like that I remember that I can exercise freewill and end up disabling it pretty quicklyā¦ The boss of me is pretty laxā¦ Itās meā¦ Iām the boss of meā¦
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Hope the good things are good and the sad things go as well as they can for you! Iām sure youāll be able to get back to reading - the books wonāt go anywhere, after all. They can wait for you.
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Mood, itās been a little frustrating lately how long some of these volumes still take me. But I just gotta remember that itās a marathon, not a race.
Even if my looming JLPT goal has it feeling otherwise.
What have you been playing, out of curiosity?
This. I never last long on stuff like focus apps because I know all I have to do is turn it off
I feel like I remember a tumblr post at one point that was along the lines of āI canāt be my own boss bc Iām like, I know that guy, heās a total pushover!ā
Nothing yet today (itās still early) but I wound up getting through like 3/4 of ć¤ć volume 2 by the time I went home yesterday.
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